prayer

n.

1. An earnest request

   entreaty, request, intercession, thanksgiving, praise, petition; see also appeal 1.

2. An address to the deity

   orison, invocation, act of devotion, supplication, devotions, benediction, litany, rogation, brocho, berakah (Hebrew).

   Prayers, sense 2, include: Lord's Prayer, Pater Noster, Our Father, Hail Mary, Doxology, the Jesus prayer, Trisagion, Glory Be, Ave Maria, grace at meals, Kiddush, Kaddish, shma Yisroel, amidah (all Hebrew); matins, vespers, Angelus, Miserère, Kyrie eleison, Te Deum, collects, hours, rosary, novena, devotions, stations of the cross, evensong, compline.